Miracle Village is a community outside of Pahokee, Florida that serves as a home for registered sex offenders. It was created by Richard Witherow, a minister working in prisons for 30 years, as an answer to sex offender registration laws that strictly limit where offenders may live.Such laws prohibit offenders from living within a certain distance of places where children gather, such as schools, parks, and places of worship. Within the limits of these rules, offenders may be unable to find available housing in populated areas, in some cases ending up homeless.